@article{StaatBallmann1988,
  author    = {Staat, Manfred and Ballmann, J.},
  title     = {Computation of impacts on elastic solids by methods of bicharacteristics},
  series = {Computational Mechanics '88 : theory and applications ; proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science April 10-14, 1988, Atlanta, GA, USA ; vol. 2},
  journal   = {Computational Mechanics '88 : theory and applications ; proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science April 10-14, 1988, Atlanta, GA, USA ; vol. 2},
  pages     = {1719 -- 1722},
  year      = {1988},
  abstract  = {Shock waves, explosions, impacts or cavitation bubble collapses may generate stress waves in solids causing cracks or unexpected dammage due to focussing, physical nonlinearity or interaction with existing cracks. There is a growing interest in wave propagation, which poses many novel problems to experimentalists and theorists.},
  subject      = {Bicharakteristikenverfahren},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{BallmannRaatschenStaat1985,
  author    = {Ballmann, J. and Raatschen, Hans-J{\"u}rgen and Staat, Manfred},
  title     = {High stress intensities in focussing zones of waves},
  doi       = {10.1016/B978-0-444-42520-1.50015-3},
  year      = {1985},
  abstract  = {The propagation of mechanical waves in plates of isotropic elastic material is investigated. After a short introduction to the understanding of focussing of stress waves in a plate with a curved boundary the method of characteristics is applied to a plate of hyperelastic material. Using this method the propagation of acceleration waves is discussed. Based on this a numerical difference scheme is developed for solving initial-boundary-value problems and applied to two examples: propagation of a point disturbance in a homogeneously finitely strained non-linear elastic plate and geometrical focussing in al linear elastic plate.},
  subject      = {Technische Mechanik},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{StaatBallmann1989,
  author    = {Staat, Manfred and Ballmann, J.},
  title     = {Zur Problematik tensorieller Verallgemeinerungen einachsiger nichtlinearer Materialgesetze},
  series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik : ZAMM. 69 (1989), H. 2},
  journal   = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik : ZAMM. 69 (1989), H. 2},
  isbn      = {0946-8463},
  doi       = {10.1515/9783112553169-006},
  pages     = {73 -- 81},
  year      = {1989},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{StaatBallmann1988,
  author    = {Staat, Manfred and Ballmann, J.},
  title     = {Wave Propagation and Focussing in Plates},
  series = {Impact loading and dynamic behaviour of materials : Papers presented at the International Conference on Impact Loading and Dynamic Behaviour of Materials, Vol. 2 / Chiem, C. Y.; Kunze, L. (u.a.) [eds]},
  journal   = {Impact loading and dynamic behaviour of materials : Papers presented at the International Conference on Impact Loading and Dynamic Behaviour of Materials, Vol. 2 / Chiem, C. Y.; Kunze, L. (u.a.) [eds]},
  publisher = {DGM Informationsges.},
  address   = {Oberursel},
  year      = {1988},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{StaatBallmann1985,
  author    = {Staat, Manfred and Ballmann, J.},
  title     = {Anisotrope Ausbreitung und Fokussierung von Beschleunigungswellen in vorgespannten nichtlinearelastischen Scheiben},
  series = {Wellenfokussierung, Kolloquium des SFB 27, RWTH Aachen},
  journal   = {Wellenfokussierung, Kolloquium des SFB 27, RWTH Aachen},
  address   = {Aachen},
  pages     = {140 -- 158},
  year      = {1985},
  language  = {de}
}
@inproceedings{StaatBallmann1989,
  author    = {Staat, Manfred and Ballmann, J.},
  title     = {Fundamental aspects of numerical methods for the propagation of multi-dimensional nonlinear waves in solids},
  series = {Nonlinear hyperbolic equations : theory, computations methods, and applications ; proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems, Aachen},
  booktitle = {Nonlinear hyperbolic equations : theory, computations methods, and applications ; proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems, Aachen},
  pages     = {574 -- 588},
  year      = {1989},
  abstract  = {The nonlinear scalar constitutive equations of gases lead to a change in sound speed from point to point as would be found in linear inhomogeneous (and time dependent) media. The nonlinear tensor constitutive equations of solids introduce the additional local effect of solution dependent anisotropy. The speed of a wave passing through a point changes with propagation direction and its rays are inclined to the front. It is an open question whether the widely used operator splitting techniques achieve a dimensional splitting with physically reasonable results for these multi-dimensional problems. May be this is the main reason why the theoretical and numerical investigations of multi-dimensional wave propagation in nonlinear solids are so far behind gas dynamics. We hope to promote the subject a little by a discussion of some fundamental aspects of the solution of the equations of nonlinear elastodynamics. We use methods of characteristics because they only integrate mathematically exact equations which have a direct physical interpretation.},
  subject      = {Nichtlineare Welle},
  language  = {en}
}